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| Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875) | ||||||||||
| Born in Paris, Corot was predominantly a landscape painter. He was a pupil of Michallon, and after Michallon’s death, of Victor Bertin. He went to Italy in 1826, and in studying nature there—as he continued to do upon returning to France in Provence, Normandy, and Fontainebleau—he learned to combine breadth of treatment with careful, though unobtrusive, detail. An eminently suggestive and refined painter, gifted with a highly poetical and tender sensibility, he has been called the Theocritus of landscape painting, owing to his particular excellence in depicting still water, sleeping woods, broad pale horizons, and veiled skies. He was well characterised in a sonnet by an American poet as ‘Thou painter of the essences of things’. At the height of his career, Corot earned a substantial income from the sale of his pictures. He died in Paris. | ||||||||||
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